Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1918 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs From the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together With Other Notes Gathered From the Several County Offices. Attorney E. B. Sellers of Monticello was in the city on business Wednesday. Judge and Mrs. C. Wr Hanley attended the funeral at Valparaiso Thursday of the wife of a nephew of the former. The call for 41 men from' Jasper county to go to Camp Wadsworth, So. Carolina on Tuesday, October 22, has been cancelled on account of the influenza epidemic. Miss Caroline Herman, nuree at tlfe county hospital, was called to St. Charles, Missouri, Tuesday on account of the death of her brother, who died of pneumonia/ at Camp Funston, Kansas. County Auditor Hammond received a card Wednesday from his son, Herbert, who has been stationed at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, for several months as a musician in the band, stating that he had received his overseas outfit and was just leaving for Fort Eustis, Virginia. New suits fileu: No. 8967. J. B. Ashby vs. Jennie M. Linton Brooks; action on note, Demand SIOO. No. 8968. Ralph Donnelly vs. Earl A. Reynolds et al; mechanic's lein. Demand SBO. No. 8969. Grant-Warner' Lumber ,Co. vs. Mert V. Brown et al; action on account and attachment. Demand $ i 00. No. 8970. Bert Taylor vs. J. D, Moose, trustee Aetna Life Insurance Co.; suit on note. Demand $4, 500. No. 8971. James W. Mather vs. Fannie Cottingham and Walter S. McConnell; suit on note. Demand S2OO. Newton circuit court items of local interest from Kentland Enterprise: Taylor-Critchfield Co. vs V. J. Crisler, continued for term. Alfred Stakley vs. D. L. Halstead, damage suit, motion for new trial overruled and appeal taken? Central Chautauqua System vs. G. H. Van Kirk, on contract, venued to Jasper county. Bank of*Wheatflelu vs. Orvis Salrin, suit on note, set for hearing November 4. Joseph Salrin vs. Walter Porter, suit on account, set for hearing October 31. Bank of Wheatfield vs. Joseph Salrin, suit on note, set for hearing October 31. Virginia Fertilizer Co. vs. Conrad Kellner, suit on account, motion for new trial overruled and appeal taken. Noah Yoder vs. Dunlap & Graves, set for hearing November 6. Lee M. Ransbottom, former auditor of Starke county, who disappeared a couple of years ago after caving sold some supposed to have been canceled -gravel road bonds, amounting to $12,«00, was arrested at Halleck, Minnesota, last week and is now confined in the county jail at Crawfordsville. Ransbottom’s bondsmen are now being sued in both the federal and local courts on these bond deals and the county has also instituted a suit to recover the sum of $3,315.04 in accrued interest on gravel road bonds which the ex-auditor failed to turn into the county treasury. It is said that Ransbottom had been giving in Minnesota for the pa.st two years under the name of Leo Randolph. The town of Hallock is located in the extreme northwest part of Minnesota and within a few miles of the Canadian line.

A prominent taxpayer of Jasper county said to The Democrat a day or two Ago that he thought the county commissioners shotfid be severely censured for spending so much money in improvements at the county farm thia year, when the government is asking that all public improvements not absolutely imperative be put off until after the war and has put an embargo on lumber. Notwithstanding this, Te said, about SIO,OOO of the

’funds of Jasper county has been spent within the past year in new improvements at our county farm. “I notice,” said he, “that neither of the county commissioners have : made any improvements on their own farms, but have been very 1 free in spending county money for improvements at the poor farm,” and . some of these improvements were made without the formality 'of securing competitive bids, too.